## page was renamed from PandaBoard

The PandaBoard is a low-power, low-cost single-board computer based on the Texas Instruments OMAP4430 processor. If you want more general information about the
PandaBoard visit one of the following pages:

 * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PandaBoard]]
 * [[http://www.pandaboard.org]]
 * [[http://www.omappedia.com/wiki/PandaBoard]]

This page describes how to install/run Debian on a PandaBoard.

= Partition the SD card =
Create at least two partitions:
 1. partition, FAT32, 10-50MB, <bootloader>
 2. partition, EXT3, at least 1G, <rootfs>

= Bootloader =
The boot process on the PandaBoard works like this: X-Loader -> U-Boot -> Kernel

To get a working Bootloader you need to put 2 files on the 1st partition of your SD card: "MLO" (which is X-Loader) and "u-boot.bin".

[[http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/x-loader/|X-loader]]  and [[http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/u-boot/|U-boot]] can be acquired from the Debian packages for armhf,

either unpack the packages manually:
{{{
cd /mnt/my-bootloader-sd-card-partition
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/x-loader/x-loader-omap4-panda_1.5.1+git20110715+fca7cd2-2_armhf.deb
ar p x-loader-omap4-panda_1.5.1+git20110715+fca7cd2-2_armhf.deb data.tar.gz |tar xzfO - ./usr/lib/x-loader/omap4430panda/MLO > MLO
rm x-loader-omap4-panda_1.5.1+git20110715+fca7cd2-2_armhf.deb
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/u-boot/u-boot_2012.04.01-2_armhf.deb
ar p u-boot_2012.04.01-2_armhf.deb data.tar.gz | tar xzfO - ./usr/lib/u-boot/omap4_panda/u-boot.bin > u-boot.bin
rm u-boot_2012.04.01-2_armhf.deb
}}}
or just install them:
{{{
apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install u-boot x-loader-omap4-panda
cp /usr/lib/x-loader/omap4430panda/MLO /usr/lib/u-boot/omap4_panda/u-boot.bin /mnt/my-bootloader-sd-card-partition
}}}
= Kernel =
Debian has a multiplatform ARM kernel flavour for armhf:
http://packages.debian.org/linux-image-armmp

||''' kernel feature    '''||''' status (sid)           '''||
|| SMP              ||<#00FF00> works                      ||
|| USB host         ||<#00FF00> works                      ||
|| USB gadget       ||<#00FF00> works                      ||
|| Serial           ||<#00FF00> works                      ||
|| Ethernet         ||<#00FF00> works                      ||
|| WLAN             ||<#00FF00> works (but needs firmware) ||
|| bluetooth        ||<#FFFF00> untested                   ||
|| audio            ||<#00FF00> works                      ||
|| hdmi/dvi         ||<#00FF00> works                      ||
|| hdmi audio       ||<#FFFF00> untested                   ||
|| hw crypto        ||<#FFFF00> untested                   ||

= TODO =
||''' feature     '''||''' status                        '''||
|| Kernel            ||<#00FF00> boots, features missing  ||
|| U-boot            ||<#00FF00> OK  ||
|| x-loader          ||<#00FF00> OK  ||
|| X11               ||<#FFFF00> framebuffer works, omapfb doesn't [[DebianBug:637269]], add omapdrm and modesetting kernels   ||
|| Install instructions||<#FF0000> missing                  ||
|| bluetooth firmware||<#FF0000> missing                    ||
|| wifi firmware     ||<#FF0000> missing                    ||
|| opengl es         ||<#FF0000> missing, non-free          ||
|| multimedia        ||<#FF0000> missing, non-free          ||

For reference packages, see [[https://launchpad.net/~tiomap-dev/+archive/release|TI PPA for ubuntu]].

= Prepare the rootfs =
WIP (installation via Multistrap)